MULTI_CONC
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Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
Which
word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set? (Corpus=corpus_awl.txt )
arrest
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clerk
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fan
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hire
preach
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worship
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2. WORDS
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[001] is feet and scrambled madly to pull his bags of seed _____ forward. They were already swollen to bursting. Of a
[002] y belongings, next to the oxen and his gun, the seed _____ had been the most treasured. It was spoiled now for
[003] chair clobbered me"! Since then, and since the pure _____ had gotten him divorced from every decent- and even
[004] ertisements for equipment for home offices show wood _____ rather than metal shelving, desk systems, potted pla
[005] egion was annually importing about 40 million tons of _____ and flour by the end of the 1990s as a supplement to
[006] of water would be required to produce this volume of _____ . Such a volume reflects about 20 percent of the regi
[007] o much water, but those involved in the international _____ trade are capable of accepting the challenge. There i
[008] nd trade, which is of major strategic significance to _____ -importing economies in arid and semi- arid regions.
[009] is ever- present in her mind as she feels its smooth _____ - gently, as if stroking the temples of a dreaming chi
[010] g a display track. They contain motors smaller than a _____ of rice. Nippondenso is not just watching the highway
[011] bigger," he says. "That's what tends to spoil the city _____ , and is blowing our market towns apart, with mega- s
[012] being launched today with the backing of Continental _____ , the private American company which is one of the wo
3. WORDS
arrest
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[001] ndicating the slightly-smoking makeshift brazier. " _____ it", he told Cappy, handing him a sheet of newspaper
[002] f two years ago. Like "Star Trek," "Xena" has its own _____ conventions and action figures, along with a huge Web
[003] tch of Darrin Fletcher's second-inning fly ball when a _____ reached over his outstretched glove and knocked the b
[004] Hess, and Parcells to autograph it. He was a Giants _____ before he was the Giants' quarterback. He says he wi
[005] the Giants' quarterback. He says he will be a Giants _____ when he is no longer the Giants' quarterback. "I hav
[006] the other Giants fans. " That Brown grew up a Giants _____ has always mattered. When Giants General Manager Geo
[007] replay of the New York Yankees being victimized by a _____ - aided home run at Yankee Stadium. It was eerily si
[008] my introduction to infrared heating, and I've been a _____ ever since. Now entrepreneur Gord Hamilton, who used
[009] most effective mosquito exterminator. A small suction _____ draws insects into range with an ultraviolet light lu
[010] n Honolulu. The prototype unit contains a small model _____ about eighteen inches in diameter, but the unit could
[011] , as it also serves as a light and an air circulation _____ . The unit contains built- in safety features. The sp
[012] the same university's journalism department, is not a _____ . He claims that it takes too much time to prepare suc
4. WORDS
arrest
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fan
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[001] use of the double verb. When a question contains two _____ , the response does not make clear which of them is b
[002] downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive _____ ". "I know what you mean", Moreland sighed. "Last
[003] the spoken English, the slang and COLLOQUIAL nouns, _____ , adjectives, adverbs, interjections, and you name it
[004] him, so to is a preposition. (This doesn't help with _____ of action; show + he becomes show him. Still, it mig
[005] him, so to is a preposition. (This doesn't help with _____ of action; show + he becomes show him. Still, it mig
[006] djectives (16, 15 terms), ratios 3.9 versus 4.7; (4) _____ (9, 22 terms), ratios 4.0 versus 3.4. It will b
[007] total ratio of 2.8 as against 3.5 or 4:5) except for _____ , where alone the Athabascan ratio is lower. This exc
[008] ted with Hoijer's use of a much higher percentage of _____ : 22% of his total list as against 3.5% in mine. Or t
[009] th a certain fury of the time she had spent on Latin _____ . "Not since last night. I didn't think there was
[010] d conjunctions operated under the same system as the _____ . This was not, for the Angel, just a matter of runni
[011] use of the double verb. When a question contains two _____ , the response does not make clear which of them is b
[012] downgraded, to use one of our popular retrogressive _____ ". "I know what you mean", Moreland sighed. "Last
5. WORDS
arrest
calculated
clerk
drag
fan
grain
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preach
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worship
[001] llow named Blatz over Smithtown way. Nobody liked to _____ him because you never could tell when he was going t
[002] 7 Most middle class nuclear families can afford to _____ someone to babysit for their children, to help them
[003] s. In my seminars around the world I tell companies: " _____ on attitude alone. Credentials are from the past, an
[004] what is happening to the large companies that used to _____ thousands, make large contributions to political part
[005] t have unexpected employment holes. They would rather _____ temporary help at slightly higher wages than have mor
[006] e the equipment you have on hand and, in many cases, _____ all your present staff. To show you how much superio
[007] ble as he was short of cash at the time and couldn't _____ the high-priced local help. What to do? Call "program
[008] poration, the Midlands- based construction and plant _____ group, put on 1p to 334p against the market trend on
[009] ed and cost pressures are easing, he added. In plant _____ , the main profit earner, the larger-scale plant items
[010] s". However, Braithwaite, which specialises in plant _____ , had tried to take over Samuelson, the film equipment
[011] had tried to take over Samuelson, the film equipment _____ company bought by Eagle in 1987. Mr Fitton confirmed
[012] ng Coalite's North Sea oil interests and its contract _____ operations. Hargreaves Quarries is expected to excite
6. WORDS
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[001] the other old maids, back there she was the youngest _____ and she was thirty- four, which made her young eno
[002] dle which she would be clutching, whichever-the-hell _____ it was who thought she could waste so much store tim
[003] form of a letter to Miss Mary R. Grant, deputy city _____ of Central Falls. A copy was released to the press.
[004] d retired. Over the weekend, Mrs. Self, personnel _____ , was a feted and honored guest of the Atlanta Club,
[005] ty pension on advice of her doctors. As personnel _____ , she handled thousands of entries, ranging from appo
[006] persons appeared at that time. Louis H. Grenier, _____ of the board, said that the appeals will be reviewed
[007] ge waited one Henry Greene, whom Hudson listed as a " _____ ". Greene was in actuality a young ruffian from Kent,
[008] nnovations was to see to it that every man- cook and _____ as well as rifleman- qualified with every weapon in
[009] wounded troopers awaiting evacuation, the company _____ , supply men, cooks and drivers, and led them to the
[010] attack. "You must have some security", said a young _____ . When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I
[011] udied German, was chosen to serve as interpreter and _____ in the office of the Stalag commander. In secret he
[012] tion where they were questioned by a most unfriendly _____ . When he discovered they had received from the Compa
7. WORDS
arrest
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[001] was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to _____ in some mountain town. Roy smiled- he did have
[002] grams at the church, the Rev. John D. Henderson will _____ on "A Successful Marriage" at 9:40 and 11 a.m. Sunda
[003] es or he would not have chosen to answer the call to _____ . The good ones are not motivated to seek vainly, nor
[004] assume, as we too often do, that we can continue to _____ the gospel in a form that makes it seem incredible a
[005] ington who has offered to allow a Catholic priest to _____ from his pulpit; a report that a Catholic nun had be
[006] to the country they probably would not be allowed to _____ the Christian faith to the Burmans. Unspeakable tort
[007] paragraphs like the foregoing is that they appear to _____ ; and in contemporary society we often complain of to
[008] es that we must do as we are ordered by the Council, _____ only the word of God and stop meddling in politics"!
[009] was teaching now that Eph Showers had had a call to _____ in some mountain town. Roy smiled- he did have
8. WORDS
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grain
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[001] laws have been glorified almost to the point of hero- _____ , but because Billy Tilghman remained strictly on the
[002] lf wasn't what I anticipated. I had come prepared to _____ at the feet of this classic, and he turned out to be
[003] aked in a little stream of water at Ryusenji, all in _____ of Fudo, the god of fire". Richard's dark eyes ca
[004] in elements which constitute the Mass (the principal _____ service of the Catholic Church). Although the beginn
[005] ncts of classical music, there is a kind of celebrity _____ . Karen LeFrak, of the New York real estate dynasty, h
[006] pean cathedrals of the Middle Ages, new monuments of _____ are materializing. The new head office of the Bank of
[007] rces ruling modern India. Ayodhya, a placid centre of _____ on the Ghaghara river in eastern Uttar Pradesh, has
[008] Church. He is the sexton of the church. A family _____ service will follow the program at 7:45 p.m. #@#
[009] lude Christianity, Mohammedanism, paganism, ancestor _____ and animism. The climate ranges from the steamily eq
[010] o all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or _____ ". Time, of course will testify whether the new ve
[011] it would be unreasonable to expect any form of idol- _____ to become widespread without the accompaniment of hu
[012] the motor car is a relatively new object of popular _____ , so it is too much to hope that it may be brought wi
9. WORDS
arrest
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[001] During the morning hours, it became clear that the _____ of Spencer was having no sobering effect upon the me
[002] the order for Small and Cromwell to be placed under _____ , and now three figures in irons sprawled upon the op
[003] and to listen. Three days had passed since Spencer's _____ and each day had brought new dangers, new fears.
[004] op in Glendale. The detectives placed Barco under _____ and, without informing him of the nature of the char
[005] rer? Ridiculous"! Then, for the first time since his _____ , a glint of spirit lit Barco's eyes. His manhood had
[006] olice task force. Now, ironically, Hernandez's recent _____ on drug charges may do nothing to lower his good stan
[007] y's office, the authorities said. And that led to his _____ on Thursday on charges of aggravated harassment and
[008] med robbery of a Ramada Inn in late July. Word of the _____ spread quickly, and investigators from several police
[009] emselves are not especially good. Their images rarely _____ and their rhythms sound clumsy both in sung and spoke
[010] launched a new investment trust which it hopes will _____ the trend towards institutional ownership of investme
[011] g harassment of the opposition, similar to the brief _____ of the Christian Democrat leader, Ricardo Arias Calde
[012] eople, prepared to face appalling hardships, possible _____ or even death to get out, arriving exhausted but so h
10. WORDS
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[001] Separating, they took different sides of the main _____ and systematically combed the bars. Russ visited two
[002] nd that if he had to he would jerk open the door and _____ out, by the opposite door handle which she would be
[003] e pretended that the lath was a tractor and he would _____ it through the dirt and make buzzing, tractor sounds
[004] He was trapped. Day and night Martin could not _____ his mind from the dilemma he had made for himself. H
[005] ots with Marshall and would use his power as D.A. to _____ every possible sensation into the case. Every new sc
[006] t double and line stripped from his heavy-duty reel, _____ set on 'stun,' as an Arctic char streaked away from
[007] etically stunted pigs or smoking beagles, less so to _____ on someone suffering from a vile disease and say "th
[008] down in advertising spending have been a considerable _____ on agency shares this year. And now these fears have
[009] ur and seven, scream as uniformed East Berlin police _____ them and their mother off and push them into a lorry
[010] hat shall we do with our prize?" said Neb. "We can't _____ it to Granite House!" "Leave it here, since it cannot
[011] than the light canoe, but it was heavy and clumsy to _____ , and therefore more difficult to use; this led Pencro
[012] torm. The settlers, uniting their efforts, managed to _____ it as far as the shore, where they discovered a large